After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

Her jade-like hands caressed the piano, carrying a tune filled with faint sorrow that wafted through the air...

"Dandelion\'s Promise"

This song, written all about "promises," yet everywhere carries "regret."

"The dandelions by the elementary school fence are a flavorful landscape in memory..."

With those opening two lines, Yao Mingyue\'s voice carried remembrance, seemingly pulling them both back many years in an instant.

Ever since they could remember, their families had lived opposite each other.

Xu Musen and Yao Mingyue were born just three months apart.

He had heard his mother say that when Yao Mingyue was one year old, her family let her draw lots, with items like an abacus, paintbrush, musical instrument, and the like laid out on the ground.

If a child picked one up, the family would nurture that interest.

But Yao Mingyue, holding her milk bottle, crawled on the ground and watched for a good while, choosing nothing. Instead, she wobbled over to the bystander Xu Musen.

She grabbed Xu Musen in a firm grasp, babbling as if to say something, refusing to let go.

This caused both families to laugh uproariously, and that day, they even joked about arranging a marriage between their children.

Afterward, the two of them attended the same kindergarten. In fact, back then, it was Yao Mingyue who was the tag-along.

No matter what, she always wanted to follow behind Xu Musen, who was actually quite mischievous at that time, occasionally teasing her.

Of course, it was just pinching her face or snatching her little snacks.

After all, they were just children.

Later, after starting elementary school, Yao Mingyue grew increasingly beautiful, and even as kids, they already knew quite a bit.

Who had a crush on whom, many "seniors" in the fifth and sixth grades had already started dating in secret.

Of course, it was more like children playing house.

At that time, Xu Musen and Yao Mingyue were already at the stage where they felt somewhat at odds with each other.

After all, after starting elementary school, the boys and girls developed a stronger sense of gender and thought it was too childish to play with the other.

Plus, because the two lived close by and had always been childhood sweethearts, the other kids would often call Yao Mingyue Xu Musen\'s betrothed and vice versa, which sometimes felt "pretty embarrassing."

For kids just starting elementary school, it was too much for their little hearts to handle.

So, at school, Xu Musen would often act unfamiliar with her.

But once school was out, the two always left together in unspoken agreement.

Yao Mingyue liked flowers as a child and would pick little yellow flowers, foxtails, and the dandelions that scatter with a puff next to the school wall.

Yao Mingyue liked to wear dresses and have Xu Musen carry her backpack, while she picked a dandelion and blew it in his face.

Watching him sneeze and itch, she\'d jump and skip merrily ahead.

In school, during physical education class, Xu Musen would lie lazily in the shade of trees on the grass, listening to the cicadas, feeling the breeze.

Yao Mingyue would also lean against the tree with him, humming tunes that, paired with the cicadas, sounded exceptionally pleasing.

"The sound of cicadas in the napping playground.

Many years later, it\'s still pleasing to the ear..."

Just like the lyrics suggest, the time before graduation from elementary school was the most content and happiest period of her life.

In four lines of lyrics, she brought everyone into that beautiful childhood memory, like a dandelion seed from childhood now settling in one\'s heart.

In truth, most people had their childhood sweethearts, but most are now lost in memory.

After all, there were no contact methods like QQ back then, so as parents changed jobs, they each went off to different cities.

Many people today might not even remember the names.

Xu Musen watched Yao Mingyue, now seated under the spotlight playing the piano, her bright eyes and white teeth, her gaze full of anticipation.

As if she were always trying to find him in the crowd.

The flood of memories came surging back; they too were unforgettable memories of joy for him.

Only, all that beauty seemed to have frozen on that summer when they finished elementary school...

Yao Mingyue\'s voice carried a tinge of sorrowful reminiscence.

"Send wishes via paper airplanes like letters

Because we can\'t wait for that shooting star..."

That summer they graduated from elementary school, Xu\'s father and Yao\'s father went on a business trip by car, but they met with an accident on the road.

And that day happened to be the night before Yao Mingyue\'s birthday.

Even Yao\'s father\'s car still had the carefully selected gift for Yao Mingyue inside.

Yao\'s father was a cultured and gentle man who was good to Xu Musen, like another father.

For Yao Mingyue, her mother was like the warm sun and her father like the stars in the sky, shadows always silently accompanying her no matter where she was.

But after that night, the brightest star, like a meteor streaking across the sky, disappeared without a trace.

For a child who had just graduated from elementary school and was about to celebrate her twelfth birthday, the pain of losing a loved one could crush a person.

That summer, Yao Mingyue spent her first birthday without her father lighting the candles on her cake, and it was also her first birthday spent in a hospital.

A day she hated her birthday for the first time.